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Fink, L. Dee – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
During the past few decades, faculty developers within the United States and internationally have steadily become more aware of the need to do a better job of assessing their programs. They are part of institutions of higher education that are also growing more aware that they not only need to "support" learning by professors and students but they…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Colleges, Faculty Development, Program Evaluation
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Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
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Fink, L. Dee – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1984
A study is outlined that evaluates the effectiveness of a program to train prospective college geography teachers by comparing those trainees with untrained teachers after one year of teaching experience. The study gathered information on teacher intentions, situations, feelings, and judgments about their profession. (MSE)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis